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CharlesW
43,538karma·8,748submissions·June 28, 2010
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Email: cwiltgen@gmail.com
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https://charleswiltgen.github.io/Axiom/ – Suite of skills, agents, and tools that make general SOTA models actually good at building and/or auditing iOS/macOS apps. Bui…
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Apple presenters are coached on how to speak, how to stand/move, what to do with their hands, etc. I can understand how it might seem culty, but it's in the service of clear communication to…
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> Many times the changelog updates are missed. In my experience, LLMs are great at reviewing changelogs for potential gaps from a user POV (and even creating draft changelogs wholesale, if you&#x…
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Yes, and never for the better.
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> So doubling isn't because it is doing above everyone's expectations, it is because Apple underestimated the demand. Clearly it's doing above their expectations, and they had prec…
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> …"progressive web apps", originally coined by Google. To make it a bit less faceless while humans still matter, it was coined by Alex Russell and Frances Berriman in 2015. Russell wor…
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Reference: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/ …
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My perspective: I've been supporting and working with Mac and iOS developers since the last century, when Apple moved me from Chicago to be an evangelist at Apple HQ in Cupertino. I know as much …
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> It would be extremely cool to be able to write one or two lines of prompt in my harness, and have a light model iterate with me a few times writing/proposing requirements, guidelines and ex…
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Finally, a cease-heat position!
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> The trick is to have a fresh instance doing the reviewing, not the one that did the work. In my experience that's not neccessary (some people even claim that you must use models from diffe…
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It's a bummer that Wi-Fi Alliance completely fumbled basics like standards for naming (Miracast has 30+ names) and UX consistency. It's not much of a mystery why Apple is throwing its weight…
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The claim was, "Janky is the price you have to pay to avoid adtech", but adtech cannot prevent you from making a jank-less, universally accessible page or site about your cats or whatever …
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> Janky is the price you have to pay to avoid adtech. I don't understand, unless adtech is holding your family hostage and forcing you to adtech. Can you elaborate?
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> I have noticed that the LLM delivers much better PHP, than Swift. If you ever have the time and inclination to try Axiom ( https://charleswiltgen.github.io/Axiom/ ), I'…